Brian Adams

Brian Adams

Brian Adams is an up-and-coming Inupiaq photographer from the northwest village of Kivalina, Alaska. Brian quickly became involved with photography in school and shot for local companies. After assisting a well-known Anchorage photographer for two years, Clark James Mishler, he began freelancing and joined Getty Images in 2006. Brian specializes in environmental portraiture. He offers both large format film and digital capture.

Brian’s clients include local, international corporations and publications: Vapors Magazine, JPG Magazine, New York Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, Newsweek Magazine, Time Magazine, No Depression, Venus Zine, Anchorage Daily News, The Press, Planet BP, Parade, Alaska Business Monthly, Alaska Magazine, WSJ Magazine by the Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and The Guardian {London}.

Kivalina, Alaska

The photo collection that is being showcased, Kivalina, tells the story of the Inupiat village that  is on the tip 8 mile long barrier island located between the Chukchi Sea and a lagoon at the mouth of the Kivalina River; about 80 miles northwest of Kotzebue, Alaska. This quaint village is the only village in the region where people hunt the bowhead whale. The original village was located at the north end of the Kivalina Lagoon but was relocated due to severe sea wave erosion during storms.